Yeah the packages are pretty absurd, it refuses to give me a vanguard other than the human female, I've gotten her upgrade like 3 times. I've all but given up on getting a different one in the beta, but I've got the Salarian infiltrator, Krogan soldier female adept, etc, etc, but no other vanguards. My starter SMG is like level 8, yet I can't get a new AR to save my life. It's a sadistic luck of the draw.

Hrmm, I'm just unlucky. I saw a guy playing last night with a widow... I WANT ONE!

I hear what you mean man, I've seen a mess of people with the Mattock, personally I really want the M-15 Vindicator for my play style. I've already got a pretty high level M-27 Scimitar with a 40% accuracy increase mod, and a bayonet for 15% more melee damage, I can reliably kill people with the shotgun from a decent distance, and have gotten more than a few head shots at range with it.

Also the Human Female Vanguard now has lights, she's been upgraded so many times...

I hear what you mean man, I've seen a mess of people with the Mattock, personally I really want the M-15 Vindicator for my play style. I've already got a pretty high level M-27 Scimitar with a 40% accuracy increase mod, and a bayonet for 15% more melee damage, I can reliably kill people with the shotgun from a decent distance, and have gotten more than a few head shots at range with it.
Also the Human Female Vanguard now has lights, she's been upgraded so many times...
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Yeah, saw the mattock a couple times. So that and a widow is what Santa should bring me for early X-mas (tonight!).

Why the dark colors? I find it nice to recognize the players when their name tag disappears by their flashy colors...

Well they held a global vote on the new female Shepard appearance and that is what won. I'm sure you will have the choice to choose the old default if you import it, otherwise there will be a face morph out in less than a day with it.

Well they held a global vote on the new female Shepard appearance and that is what won. I'm sure you will have the choice to choose the old default if you import it, otherwise there will be a face morph out in less than a day with it.

I don't even care about the default face... unless that is what is causing even my custom faces to look like total crap.

The engine has nothing to do with it, you could use Renderware (Ie. GTA San Andreas) as an engine but still have it look better than Crysis. The fact the demo has small textures does though, with larger textures the TMUs and memory bandwidth of a 9600GT would become a limitation.